A woman who allegedly drove a four-wheel-drive vehicle onto the pavement and at a group of six people in Hastings at the weekend, injuring one of them, has turned herself into police.
Detective Glenn Restieaux said a 28-year-old woman and her relative, who was a passenger in thecar, turned themselves in at the Mangere police station, South Auckland yesterday.
The driver would be charged with wounding with intent and further charges were likely, he said.
The woman would be bailed to appear at Hastings District Court in June.
The incident happened at 7.30am on Saturday, after the group of six had just got out of the woman's Toyota RAV4 on Hastings' main shopping strip, Heretaunga St.
The car then mounted the kerb and travelled about 30m along the pavement, striking at least one of the group, who ranged in age from their early teens to mid 20s.
A 23-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries.
Mr Restieaux said nobody in the group of six had previously met the two women in the four-wheel-drive.
"They've had a big night, been to a local bar until closing, then carried on at a party, and then they've got a lift with these unknown persons because they were travelling in the same direction."
Mr Restieaux said the incident was not a "copycat" of the case of Christchurch factory worker Lipine Sila, 22, who is facing charges of murdering 16-year-olds Jane Young and Hannah Rossiter.
Sila allegedly drove his Honda Integra into a crowd of young people outside a party in St Albans this month, injuring many others.
